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  • From: Christiane Asschenfeldt <christiane AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: cc-au AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Cc-au] Welcome Note and Guidelines for Discussion
  • Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:11:14 -0800

Welcome to the discussion of the Creative Commons licenses for Australia.

It is my great pleasure to present to you Tom Cochrane (Deputy Vice Chancellor QUT), Professor Brian Fitzgerald Head of Law School (QUT), and Ian Oi (Blake Dawson Waldron Lawyers), our project leads.

Professor Fitzgerald is going to lead the legal discussion on this mailing list.

Please read the following suggestions for using the mailing list. They have proven valuable in other Creative Commons countries.




1) We suggest you bookmark important emails for future reference.

For example:

http://creativecommons.org/projects/international/au/translated-license

is the first draft.
Most likely you`ll return to it often, as it is the centerpiece of the discussion.

The following link tells you about the changes we`ve made so far to the original license (under US-law) in order to arrive at the current draft:
http://creativecommons.org/projects/international/au/english-changes


Please bookmark it now for efficiency.


2) Please try and keep your emails relatively short and limited to one subject per email. This will prevent others from being overwhelmed, and
will help to catch up on discussions they may have missed. This approach provides the additional benefit that you will be able to link back to previous emails by subject very easily (as demonstrated above).



3) Please limit your suggestions and comments to things that will help

the licenses fit into UK law. The role of the discussion is not to
second-guess either Creative Commons' general policy or the philosophy reflected in the licenses.

It's aim is to make the minimum of changes necessary for getting the license to accord with Australian law. Suggestions going beyond this goal in all probability will not affect the shape of the final license.
The first line of judgment on what changes will be accepted is Professor Fitzgerald`s. The final judgment is Creative Commons's.



4) Please feel free to ask general question about the licenses in the cc-licenses mailing list. Part of the fun of this discussion will be, I hope, that we
get to compare the quirks and eccentricities of our respective nations' copyright laws.

I expect the archived discussions to serve as a history of this
experience. That way, your input will continue be useful to anyone from
any country even after the discussion in the Australia is completed.

I hope that these suggestions will help to make the discussion free and
healthy, yet focused on suggested changes to the licenses.




Thank you very much. It's now Professor Fitzgerald's discussion to lead,

all the best,
Christiane




Christiane Asschenfeldt

International Commons Coordinator

Alte Schoenhauser Strasse 35

D-10119 Berlin, Germany

+49.163.77.64.828




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  • [Cc-au] Welcome Note and Guidelines for Discussion, Christiane Asschenfeldt, 03/22/2004

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